rchaeologists have discovered a monumental statue of an ancient black Egyptian pharaoh of the Nubian 25th Dynasty in Dangeil, Sudan, about 350 kilometres northeast of the capital, Khartoum.
The granite statue of the warrior pharaoh Taharqa weighs one ton, according to its discoverer, Dr Caroline Rocheleau of the North Carolina Museum of Art, who added it was:
More than life-size and weighs over one ton.

The statues of two other Nubian pharaohs were also discovered. Rocheleau’s blog is quoted on the DNA website describing the statues as having:

Great muscular bodies with an inscribed back pillar… and lovely feet on the statue base, but we are missing their heads and their lower legs.
Taharqa was ruler of both Egypt and Nubia (Kush) during the 25th Dynasty, which was based in Nubia, which had a long history of pyramid building, apparently independent of Egypt. His reign is dated from 690 BC to 664 BC. The pharaoh is mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Kings under the name ”Tirhakah.” 2 Kings 19:9 says:
Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite king of Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:
”Kush” refers to areas south of Egypt, including Nubia.

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I remember in college, back in 96, i got into it with this Korean kid who swore that the Egyptians were arab and white. I tried to explain to this cat that from what i understood at the time, that the empire started in Sudan(Kush) and spread up(down) the Nile to Egypt. And that he needed to stop believing what he saw on tv. How can you have white ppl creating something in a place where at the time there were no whites? All you have to do is look at the art and statues.
Got into it at a job years later with this Christian when I tried to explain that the oldest practicing Christians in the world were in Ethiopia, and that the Ark was supposed to be guarded by monks in some remote mountains in

This is really amazing.

How are they going 2 spin this one?

purplemansionFL said:

How fuckin cool

Mach said:

There a lot of this stuff around...it is just NOT talked about.

Graycap23 said:

they said it weighs like a ton or more...that would be hard as hell to spin

Graycap23 said:

That is so true.

why is this surprising? this makes perfect sense because egypt is upper africa?

XxAxX said:

yeah, I am a bit confused as to how black pharaohs can be a new discovery to anyone that has seen a map. But it is an great archeological discovery.

purplemansionFL said:

it was Naqada culture that became Ancient Egypt
Naqada is a town on the west bank of the Nile in the Egyptian governorate of Qena. It was known in Ancient Egypt as Nubt and in classical antiquity as Ombos. Its name derives from ancient Egyptian nub, meaning gold, on account of the proximity of gold mines in the Eastern Desert.

it's where that bulge in the nile is in about the middle of Eygpt
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OnlyNDaUsa said:

well mr. hawas (the head egyptology dude for egypt) has claimed that the ancient egyptians weren't black... so i guess they took that and went from there?

sammij said:

technically these are invading pharaohs from the south and indigenous Egyptian rulers.

sammij said:

maybe he is correct? after all Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner are white. So they must have all been white!?

OnlyNDaUsa said:

RIGHT?!

ernestsewell said:

n Ancient Egypt, Libyan princes had taken control of the delta under Shoshenq I in 945 BC, founding the so-called Libyan or Bubastite dynasty that would rule for some 200 years. Sheshonq also gained control of southern Egypt by placing his family members in important priestly positions. However, Libyan control began to erode as a rival dynasty in the delta arose in Leontopolis, and Kushites threatened from the south. Around 727 BC the Kushite king Piye invaded northward, seizing control of Thebes and eventually the Delta.[6]. His dynasty, the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt, continued until about 653 BC. The 25th dynasty was based at Napata, in what is now The Sudan. Alara is universally regarded as the founder of the 25th Kushite dynasty by his successors. The power of the 25th Dynasty reached a climax under the pharaohs Piye and Taharka.

Pharaoh Taharka spent half his time as ruler of Egypt restoring its earlier cultural achievements while also fending off Assyrian power in the east. In 674, he defeated an invading Assyrian army under the leadership of Esarhaddon. Three years later, he would be defeated in three battles that would force Kush out of Egypt altogether. Why the Kushites chose to enter Egypt at this crucial point of foreign domination is subject to debate. Archaeologist Timmothy Kendall offers his own hypotheses, connecting it to a claim of legitimacy associated with Gebel Barkal.[7] Kendall cites the stele of Pharaoh Piye, which states that "Amun of Napata granted me to be ruler of every foreign country," and "Amun in Thebes granted me to be ruler of the Black Land (Kmt)". Noteworthy is that according to Kendall, "foreign lands" in this regard seems to include Lower Egypt while Kmt seems to refer to a united Upper Egypt and Nubia